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Custom Correlation Matrix

The following table shows return correlations between the assets you entered for the past three months.

TIP AGG IGE GSG VNQ RWX EEM EFA VB VV VO VGK VPL Return StdDev
Delete_icon Ishares Barclays TIP 1.7% 1.1%
Delete_icon Ishares Barclay AGG 0.43 56.7% 1.4%
Delete_icon Ishares S&P Gssi IGE -0.14 0.15 34.5% 6.4%
Delete_icon Ishares Gsci Cmdt GSG -0.14 0.03 0.73 -75.6% 3.6%
Delete_icon Vanguard Sf Reit VNQ -0.28 -0.22 0.66 0.45 -42.6% 8.1%
Delete_icon Spdr Dj Wilshire RWX -0.06 0.13 0.82 0.55 0.68 -3.6% 4.0%
Delete_icon Ishares Msci E.M. EEM -0.22 -0.06 0.87 0.63 0.77 0.82 66.6% 7.3%
Delete_icon Ishares Msci Eafe EFA -0.11 0.10 0.91 0.61 0.75 0.86 0.93 17.5% 4.9%
Delete_icon Vanguard Sm Cap E VB -0.19 -0.08 0.83 0.57 0.90 0.83 0.86 0.87 1.2% 4.6%
Delete_icon Vanguard Lg Cap E VV -0.19 0.01 0.91 0.62 0.84 0.85 0.93 0.96 0.94 11.5% 4.1%
Delete_icon Vanguard Mid Cap VO -0.16 0.01 0.91 0.63 0.86 0.86 0.91 0.93 0.97 0.98 6.1% 4.5%
Delete_icon Vangrd European E VGK -0.12 0.09 0.91 0.64 0.77 0.87 0.92 0.99 0.88 0.95 0.93 10.1% 4.8%
Delete_icon Vangrd Pacific Et VPL -0.10 0.08 0.90 0.60 0.72 0.84 0.92 0.97 0.84 0.93 0.90 0.94 36.4% 4.7%
Delete_icon Nasdaq Composite ^IXIC -0.26 -0.06 0.87 0.60 0.87 0.83 0.92 0.93 0.96 0.98 0.97 0.93 0.90 1.8% 4.0%
Portfolio 2.7% 4.0%

Intra-portfolio diversification = 0.59
Start Date = 2008-10-09
End Date = 2009-01-06

Each cell represents the correlation between the two corresponding assets.

Cell Color Description Diversification Benefit
-0.65 Asset pair with negative correlation Excellent Diversification
-0.15 Asset pair with slight negative correlation Good Diversification
0.2 Asset pair with mild positive correlation Moderate Diversification
0.8 Asset pair with strong positive correlation Poor Diversification